Venue: YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov

Machshava:

Reward and Punishment 

Nach:

Iyov 

Parsha:

Naso 

Collections: Rabbi Torczyner Iyov 2014

References: Sanhedrin: 108a  

Description

Iyov parodies the normal pattern of complaining about the wicked and then calling on HaShem to punish them, by complaining about the wicked and then rejecting the usual theological statements about their ultimate downfall. Brief discussion, toward the end, of Trial by Ordeal and the Sotah.